From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6447 invoked by alias); 27 Dec 2004 18:09:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 6389 invoked from network); 27 Dec 2004 18:09:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.170.202) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 27 Dec 2004 18:09:19 -0000 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id f1so240130rne for ; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.77.71 with SMTP id z71mr125836rna; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.76.4 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Dec 2004 10:09:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 18:09:00 -0000 From: Joshua Daniel Franklin Reply-To: Joshua Daniel Franklin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mapping root directory to SystemDrive / CurrentDrive (documentation change needed) In-Reply-To: <20040803134524.GE16002@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <200408021452.34000.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <200408031317.20267.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <20040803115006.GR31522@cygbert.vinschen.de> <200408031400.08988.gernot.hillier@siemens.com> <20040803134524.GE16002@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2004-12/txt/msg00884.txt.bz2 On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 09:45:24 -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 02:00:08PM +0200, Gernot Hillier wrote: > >Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 13:50 schrieb Corinna Vinschen: > >>Keep in mind that this only happens if / isn't mounted -> back to > >>undocumented behaviour. > > > >Well, this is not undocumented. The case without mounts is explicitly > >documented on http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html which says > >"By default, the POSIX root / points to the system partition [...]". > > Joshua, would you mind fixing the documentation? Well, this is embarrassing but I'm just getting caught up on last August's email. How does this sound? Since Windows uses drive letters instead of a single filesystem root, the POSIX root / must be set to a directory in the Windows file system using the mount command. Without a / mount, Cygwin processes cannot distinguish between the Windows CurrentDrive and SystemDrive. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/